KAWAI DIGITAL

CA Series:

The CA series is the answer to the age-old question: can a digital piano sound and play as well as a similarly-priced acoustic, without breaking the bank. The answer of course, is yes.

The four models of the CA series (CA49, CA59, CA79, CA99) offers their Grand Feel wood actions, multi-speaker Onkyo arrays, and their top-of-line Harmonic Imaging XL engine. It opens a world of musical expression previously only available with acoustic instruments, where the sensitivity, complexity, and dynamisim can truly be sculpted and called upon to render the most demanding classical repertoire or today’s contemporary piano hits.

For teachers, the pianos’ actions ensure that students have the right weighted resistance and ‘touch’, so that muscle control and full expression can be taught.

For enthusiasts, the sound quality is album-worthy, allowing them to learn and play a piano that delivers grand-piano like tone and touch, for the price of the most basic new acoustic upright piano.

This is a series of few compromises, and generally represents the top-end of actions and sound technology from Kawai. Beautiful cabinet options are also available, including white, polished black, and satin black and rosewood finishes.

ES Series:

The Kawai ES Series is their response to the Roland FP or Yamaha P series – portable ‘all-in-one’ units which deliver great sound and features in a compact package.

The ES110 is virtually the KDP120 without the furniture, whereas the ES520 and ES920 was developed entirely separate from any other Kawai model. The control interface, speaker system, and feature set are unique to the entire brand. It has the RHIII action like the CN series, a specially-designed speaker box which delivers great bass response, and recording and intelligent accompaniment with rhythms as well. It also incorporates EQ sliders, extensive onboard recording capability, and Bluetooth Audio and Midi.

MP Series:

The MP Series is Kawai’s Pro-only line, which would directly compete against Yamaha’s CP4, CP300, and Roland’s RD line. They are stage instruments built for live performance, studio use, and production. The MP7 focuses on a traditional controller/stage piano use case, whereas the MP11 is the only portable example of Kawai’s full-length wood key action in a piano. The VPC1 doesn’t really fit into a ‘series’ per se, but it’s essentially the MP11 without ANY tone generation whatsoever. It’s a midi-controller on steroids, widely acknowledged as the most accurate midi controller on the market.

Novus Series:

With Novus, Kawai has created a digital piano without limits, without compromise, and without peer. Every aspect of the piano has been designed to deliver the absolute best of the industry, and the result is a musical instrument that’s so dynamic, so responsive, and so realistic in every sense that it truly presents an alternative to an acoustic piano – even for a discerning professional.

Its actions are taken directly from their K Series (Novus 5) and GX/Shigeru Series (Novus 10) – there are no approximations, short cuts, or ‘almosts’…it is the same action, complete with full escapement, jack, whippen, dampers, action rails, keysticks…everything.